1896- Plessy v. Ferguson
1954- Brown v. Board of Education
1955- Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott started by Rosa Parks' act of courage in refusing to give up her seat to a white man
1956- Montgomery bus boycott ends with integration of the buses.
1956- Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is murdered at age 14 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
1958- Cleaver on Parole
1963- Medgar Evers, civil rights leader in Mississippi murdered
1964- Three college-age civil rights workers, one Black and two White, murdered in Mississippi. "Mississippi Burning"
1965- Eldridge Cleaver writes Soul on Ice
1965- Watts (Los Angeles, CA) riots
1965- National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (reinforces the 15th Amendment )
1968- Soul On Ice published. Made the top 10 on New York Times Bestseller List twice in summer of '68.
1954- Brown v. Board of Education
1955- Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott started by Rosa Parks' act of courage in refusing to give up her seat to a white man
1956- Montgomery bus boycott ends with integration of the buses.
1956- Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is murdered at age 14 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
1958- Cleaver on Parole
1963- Medgar Evers, civil rights leader in Mississippi murdered
1964- Three college-age civil rights workers, one Black and two White, murdered in Mississippi. "Mississippi Burning"
1965- Eldridge Cleaver writes Soul on Ice
1965- Watts (Los Angeles, CA) riots
1965- National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (reinforces the 15th Amendment )
1968- Soul On Ice published. Made the top 10 on New York Times Bestseller List twice in summer of '68.